Dreadful Impact

That was a wretched edition of TNA Impact last night. The "heel stable takes over the show" gimmick was done ten years ago when the NWO took over Monday Nitro and as I recall, the show was so awful that was the week that Monday Night Raw finally beat them in the ratings for the first time in a year. Nobody learns anything. The "Front Line" group looked inept. Who would pay to see these clowns get revenge? The Booker T/Kevin Nash announce team grew old after the first minute. Was Booker trying to sound like Don West or Junkyard Dog? No Beautiful People? Kurt Angle really beat both members of LAX clean? Really? After they taped this fiasco, the "creative team" should have been fired, and someone should have pulled the plug on the episode and just aired a "Best-of" show. This group is hopeless, until they get rid of the current booking regime. When you factor in the "Shane McMahon beats up the entire roster of Raw" travesty from Monday (I was embarassed for everyone involved), this has been a brutal week of wrestling.

However, hope is on the horizon. According to a report at perezhilton.com, Brooke Hogan has signed to wrestle one of Ric Flair's sons (it didn't say which one) at the Florida State Fair. Now that has potential to be damn funny.

New Releases

Out in stores this week:

Voices: WWE The Music Vol. 9-- If you've ever wanted to march around the house to the Great Khali's theme song, then this is the CD for you. Features theme entrance songs of some of your favorite WWE Superstars including Randy Orton, R-Truth, Kelly Kelly, and Umaga. Best Buy has an exclusive bonus disc with classic themes from The Rock, Stone Cold, HHH and others.

Working On A Dream by Bruce Springsteen-- The latest offering from Bruce Springsteen features the incredible title track from the movie The Wrestler, which won a Golden Globe Award for Best Song (below). This might be the first Springsteen album that I've checked out in years.

(Both CDs available at cduniverse.com, amazon.com, Itunes and the usual outlets)

WWE Royal Rumble Results

Results from last night's Royal Rumble in Detroit:

- Jack Swagger beat Matt Hardy to retain the ECW Title

- Melina beat Beth Phoenix to win the WWE Women's Title

- John Cena beat JBL to retain the Raw World Title

- Edge beat Jeff Hardy to win the Smackdown World Title. Matt Hardy turned heel on his brother to lead to the finish.

- Randy Orton won the Royal Rumble.

My Review of The Wrestler

After reading so much about it, I finally got a chance to see the movie The Wrestler on Saturday. I must say that it did live up to the hype. The movie was a real quality project. Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood all really played their roles fantastically. Rourke was totally believable as a washed-up wrestler from the 80's. He deserves all of the accolades that he is receiving. The real treat of the movie was Marisa Tomei. Prior to this role, I had never really even given the broad a second thought. However, her portrayal of the aging stripper in this movie was outstanding. She had a couple of nude scenes. In fact, Marisa Tomei's Ass should be given top billing over Rourke on the movie poster. Anyway, I highly recommend this film. You will enjoy this movie if you are a fan of wrestling, if you are a fan of good movies, or if you are a fan of round behinds.

This just in: Now I'm hearing that Mickey Rourke has announced that he will show up at WrestleMania 25 and has challenged Chris Jericho. There goes that Oscar!

They're Back!

The Beautiful People doing what they do best-- just straight kicking broad's asses!

Review of Notorious

I caught the movie Notorious at a nearby cineaplex last weekend. The movie is a biopic on slain rapper Biggy Smalls (a.k.a. the Notorious B.I.G.). We get to see his transformation from little kid to drug dealer to upstart rapper to perhaps the greatest of all-time. The actor who played Biggy did a really good job; a poor performance could have turned the movie into a joke, but he did very well. The actress who played Lil' Kim was hot and she did well also. I read that the real Lil' Kim was upset about how she was portrayed in the movie. Basically, she was portrayed as a doormat-- it could have been worse. Of course the movie has a tragic ending, but still this is a movie that I highly recommend (just stay away from the after parties).

Our 44th President

My favorite moments from yesterday's festivities: